Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull: vapid conversation.
- adj. Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat: vapid beer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- That has lost its life and spirit; insipid; dead; flat.
- Dull; spiritless; destitute of animation; insipid.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking taste or flavor or tang
- adj. lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
Etymologies
- From Latin vapidus ("flat or vapid"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin vapidus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“John Mariani, a longtime wine and food writer, predicts a rise in vapid wine blogs.”
Imperfect storage, blogging, new critics, Johnny Apple – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
“Sure, Ann Coulter has proven that being shrill and vapid is no serious barrier to success, but Coulter is at least sporadically witty and entertaining — she can turn a phrase, whether or not she uses it to say much of anything.”
“Locale: Staging and dressing together constitute locale and their absence will render it "vague" or "vapid" -- though a writer might, of course, pare away the requisite details deliberately, in the same way they might pare away features distinguishing voice.”
“I vaguely recall a vapid amicus brief or two urging that the Supreme Court grant cert in a case because some lawprofs cared about it.”
“She abandons her son for what can only be called a vapid frat boy.”
“Los Angeles has long been known as a vapid cultural wasteland.”
“Likened to bimbos, or called vapid, or whatever else?”
“From the moment George Bush coined his vapid "compassionate conservatism" rhetoric during the 2000 campaign, principled conservatives knew they were in trouble.”
“From the moment George Bush coined his vapid "compassionate conservatism" rhetoric during the”
“Sh*t, I wish I'd said that - especially the "vapid" part.”
Averting our eyes from the wreck (literal and figurative) (Jack Bog's Blog)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vapid’.
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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Familiar
Just a list of words
fulminate, unctuous, malediction, lumpenproletariat, descry, surfeit, sententious, supernumerary, unabashed, picayune, obliterate, decry and 112 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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words 1
Traduce, Ramify, precipitous, rapture, adumbrate, knell, smolder, vagary, choleric, sibylline, hypocritical, jejune and 135 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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People are Scum
words that one may enjoy using to describe other people or their actions
degenerate, reprobate, scapegrace, capricious, sycophant, arbitrary, infernal, abominable, iniquitous, nefarious, philistine, sadistic and 39 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1901 more...
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Word Up
piquancy, piquant, vapid, mendacious, impassive, austere, austerity, periphery, hiatus, brandish, anorexia
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ICE
quincunx, adoxography, panjundrum, breloque, surd, scripturient, rousant, favrile, embouchure, aquarelle, griffonage, sussultatory and 234 more...
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Words
teeter, headlong, reprobate, canard, ersatz, prevaricate, trenchant, minatory, fatuous, stultify, vitiate, fulminate and 135 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for vapid.

dimã©lion helpful word. Nov 28, 2008
mollusque Seems flaccid as an insult. Nov 3, 2008
senwick Has a very intense angry sound and shape. Great insult.
Much like insipid. Nov 3, 2008